POLICE OF LONDON. ROBBERIES: On the evening of the 17th,

nearly one hundred articles of plate, valued at 1501., were stolen from the house of Sir William Beechy; in Harley-street. Suspicion fell upon Alexander Fin- layson, Sir William's footman, and he has been twice examined before the Magistrate at Marlborough-street Police-office. No light, however, has been derived from this examination ; and no part of the plate has been discovered.

Anne Wilson was examined on Tuesday at Guildhall, on the charge of robbing the shop of Mr. Frodsham, watch-maker, Gracechurch-street. About midday, and while the owner was standing in the shop, she broke a window- pane, and most deliberately began to secure a number of the watches. She was taken into custody with two of the watches in her hand. Sir Peter Laurie —" How du you get your living ?" Prisoner—" By thieving!" Sir P. Laurie —" How long have you adopted that profession ?" Prisoner—" About two years, it may be three. I can't be particular." Sir P. Laurie—" You must have associates. Who are they ?" Prisoner—" No; 1 work by myself." Sir P. Laurie—" Where do you reside ?" Prisoner—" I have no settled place of residence." Sir P. Laurie—" Where did you sleep last'pight ?" Prisoner —" That does not concern you to know." Sir P. Laurie—" Where were you born ?" Prisoner—" In London." Sir P. Laurie—" Have you any parents or friends ?" Prisoner—" .None; they are all dead." Sir P. Laurie- " What did you intend to do with the watches ?" Prisoner—" To sell them." Sir P. Laurie —" Where ?" Prisoner—" You sha'nt know that." Sir P. Laurie—" Did you break the window?" Prisoner—"certainly. flow could I come at the watches else ?" Sir P. Laurie—" Do you like thieving ?" Prisoner—•' It makes no odds to you whether I do or not." Sir P. Laurie- " I shall commit you to Newgate. Were you ever there ?" Prisoner- " Never ; but I don't care what you do with me." The sullen composure and impudence of the women led some persons to think her insane. She is committed for trial.

A gentleman complained at Lambeth-street.office, on Wednesday, that his house had That morning been robbed by thieves, who had gained an entrance by removing a panel of a door and killing the watch-dog. The thieves had conducted their operations so quietly, that they took the watches from his daughters bed-rooms without disturbing them. The complainer, however, awakened; and the thieves might have been apprehended, but for the con- duct of three watchmen of the Commercial-road trust, who would not leave their bounds to give assistance.

A youth named;-Webb has been committed from this office for trial, on a charge of robbing his brother-in-law, Mr. Burgess, of Long-lane, Bermondsey. The prisoner's mother and brother attended to prosecute ; and they said that they were compelled to adopt this alternative to save him from an ignominious death.

ASSAULT BY A WATCHMAN.—A case was heard at Bow-street, on Wednes- day, which throws new light on thesystem and materials of the nightly watch. Nicholas Leonard, a mechanic, was on the street at two o'clock that morning ; John Beazley, a watchman, " suspected" that he had rung the bell at one of the doors in St. Martin's Court, and after some rough treatment, Leonard was consigned to the watch-house. Beazley having entered his charge, refused to suffer any one to lock up the prisoner except himself; in doing which, he struck him a blow on the back of the head; which precipitated him from the top to the bottom of the steps leading to the place where prisoners were usually confined ; and there the young man lay for more than half an hour in a state of insensibility, bleeding profusely. It did not appear that the pri- soner had been guilty of any offence on the street; he had merely incurred the suspicion of the watchman. Beazley's character is abominable : he keeps a brothel ; and has been known to use his power to the persecution and plun- dering of wretched women of the town. He had formerly been suspended, but was restored again by the parish officers. Mr. Halls bound him over to answer the charge of assault at the sessions.

LIABILITY OF A HUSBAND.—In November 1826, a person named Flinton separated front his wife ; and subsequently she instittited a suit for alimony, on the ground that her husband had been guilty of cruelty and adultery. The husband produced recriminatory proofs ; and the Consistory Court dismissed her suit, intimating that it considered adultery had been proved against each party, and neither would be relieved there. These proceedings cost the husband 8001, 'I he wife appealed to the Arches' Court; but upon the husband pleading in forma patrperis, she discontinued proceedings, and threw herself

on the parish where she was residing, from whence she was removed to her husband's settlement, St. Andrew by the Wardrobe. The overseers of the parish gave her four shillings per week ; but they caused her husband to be apprehended, to be dealt with under the vagrant act. The question came before Sir'Peter Laurie, on Thursday, at Guildhall. The husband contended

that as he had proved his wife to be an adulteress, he was not liable to reimburse the overseers. Sir Peter, the City Solicitor, and the Chief Clerk, were however of opinion that Flinton was liable to the parish until he obtained a divorce entirely dissolving the marriage. The question has been appealed to the'Sessions, and the defendant called upon to give security.

ExEcurforrs.—Charles Kite, William Wheatley, and George King, were executed on Monday, at the drop on the roof of the Surrey County Gael, in Horsemongerdane. The crime for which they suffered was a burglary at the Teddington Lock-house; but they had all been engaged in many other daring robberies at Hampton, and in the neighbourhood of the little village of Ham They died as they had lived. Matthew and Henry Pinnell, highway-robbers convicted at the late Assizes, were executed on Saturday at Cheltenham. The crowd assembled to witness the ignominious spectacle was composed chiefly of women, many of whom requested permission to touch the bodies, almost as soon as life was extinct, in the hope of obtaining "a charmed cure" for some disease.

William Osborne, convicted of highway-robbery, was hanged, on Saturday, in front of Bury gaol. He had placed the greater part of the money, the fruit of his crime, in the hands of a companion, who made off with it previous to the trial, without providing counsel for him as he had promised. Osborne had formerly been sentenced to death for sheep-stealing.

John Rutledge was hanged last week at Enniskillen, for shooting at Mr. Maguire, of Tempo. After the crime was committed, he engaged a passage for himself and his daughter in a ship bound for America, and had proceeded on the voyage as far as Newfoundland, when the ship was wrecked, and the whole of the crew returned in a vessel bound for Cork. Here Mr. Betty, governor of the convict-ship, having seen Rutledge's description in the Hue and Cry, and finding his name in the list of passengers of the ship in which he had returned, had him arrested; and Mr. Maguire having identified him, the issue was his trial and a felon's death.

At the late Naas Assizes, William Macloughlin, and his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Coffey, were tried for the murder of Richard Coffey, the hus- band of the latter. The deceased, who was the second husband of the female prisoner, was a farmer, and lived at Fearncross, near Newbridge. The male prisoner had been in the civil service of the Irish Government, and lived on a retiring pension with his mother and Mr. Coffey. Some difference soon took place between Coffey and Macloughlin respecting property, and Mrs. Coffey, it appeared, had taken part with her son. Coffey was much addicted to liquor. On the evening of the 13th of October, he was brought home in a state of intoxication, having fallen into a ditch in the neighbour- hood of his house. Next morning he was found by a maid-servant lying on the floor of his bed-room, covered with blood, and his skull fractured. He was quite dead. The evidence on the trial was entirely circumstantial ; but there seemed strong grounds of suspicion against both the prisoners. The facts proved against Macloughlin were so decided, that the Jury convicted him, while they acquitted his mother. Macloughlin's conduct on the trial was firm and composed. His mother seemed to be about seventy-five years of age. Her hair, which was sitter white, streamed down over her forehead ; and as she leaned at the bar she seemed to tremble, not less with fear than with age. Macloughlin has been executed. He was extremely well known in the most fashionable circles in Dublin. He was a distinguished duellist, and scarcely an "affair of honour" could take.placin the rreigh-• bourbood of Dublia in which he was not in some way concerned. At the late Assizes for the county of Warwick, judgment of death was re- corded against sixty-six prisoners, of whom twenty-eight were poachers. Six were ordered to be transported for life, one for fourteen years, and fifteen for seven years.

Two women of the name of Philips (mother and daughter,) who 'were im- plicated by the dying confession of George Partridge, lately executed at Bury for murder, have been committed to gaol, as access:tries after the fact of the murder of Jonas Ansell.—Bury Herald.

1,1suac.—On the 30th ultimo, two gentlemen of Cork, Messrs. Golden and M'Carthy, met near Vernon Mount, when the former was shot through the body, and died immediately. Fonosay.—A forgery to some extent in the Treasury department of the Customhouse was discovered on Saturday. An order was presented to the Receiver-General, purporting to be signed by three of the Commissioners, for

paying to Mr. William 0. Hemsworth, the Collector of Customs at the port of Fowey, the sum of 19731. and at the same time the person exhibited a receipt, purporting to be the receipt of William G. Hemsworth, for that sum. The order was paid with a check on the Bank of England, which was imme-

diately cashed; and the successful forger has eluded detection, though a reward of 5001. has been offered for apprehending him.

ROBBERIES.—Stage-coach robberies are becoming very common. The thieves get up behind the coach, and cut away the pockets of the passengers.

On Sunday night, a female passenger on one of the stage-coaches from Clap- ham, was attacked in this way : her clothes were cut through, and she received a deep wound in the thigh : she however saved her property, and the thief escaped across the fields.

HORSE•STEALI NG.—Emberson, Holding, and Stedman, three notorious horse-stealers, and supposed to be implicated in a great numberof recent cases,

were last week apprehended on Cheshunt-common in Hertfordshire. Ninety. five horses have within a short period been stolen in Essex, Herts, and the neighbouring counties; most of them have been sent to the continent.

Tus Essex FIRES.—The authors of the numerous destructive fires at Witham and its vicinity, have at length, after much exertion and inquiry, been

discovered. On Saturday last five of them, against whom, the evidence, though

circumstantial, is said to be most conclusive, were conveyed to Chelmsford gaol. The Essex Herald mentions, that a man named Edward Potto, who is confined on five charges of arson, made a confession to the Magistrates impli-

cating a number of other young men ; but upon being confronted with those he accused, he declared that all he had said was a fabrication from beginning to end.

FALSE Wsianzs.—Sixty shop-keepers in Liverpool have been fined for having deficient weights in their possession.

CRIME IN FRANCE.--A frightful circumstance has recently taken place its the commune of Bezas-Bajon, canton of Massenbe, arrondissement of Mirande.

A young girl has poisoned her father, her mother, her brother, and three sisters, every one of whom is dead, with the exception of the brother, whose life is despaired of. It is presumed that a lover has been her adviser in this dreadful affair, in order to become possessed of the family property. The young woman has been arrested, but the lover has hitherto escaped the re- searches of justice.

A frightful crime was lately committed at Besancon. Some wretches who had taken a dislike to a young girl, because she resisted their proposals, en- ticed her to a house situated in a retired spot; and after having heated a stove, they forced her to sit upon it while it was red hot. The barbarians left her in a state of great agony, and she died a day or two after.

The editor of the Kentucky Gazette was murdered last month, in his office, by a man who had taken offence at an anonymous communication which appeared in that paper. After some altercation, the offended individual pulled a pistol from his pocket, and deliberately shot the editor through the body.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING began on. Monday. The Craven Stakes of ten sovereigns each was won by Mr. W. Chiffiley's Zinganee, beating Mr. D. Radcliffe's Fleur-de-lis, and Lord G. Cavendish's Amphion : A fine race and won by a head. Handicap Sweepstakes of ten sovereigns each gained' by Mr. Greville's Harlequin, beating Mr. Paine's Whalebone : Won by a neck. The Riddlesworth Stakes of two hundred sovereigns was gained by Lord Exeter's colt, beating Mr. Hunter's colt, the Duke of Grafton's Burman, Mr. Wilson's Brother to Reformer, aed Mr. Batson's filly : Won easy by three lengths. Match fur two hundred sovereigns—Mr. Stonehewer's Chi- ron beat Mr. Greville's Nessus : Won by two lengths. Match for five hundred sovereigns—Mr. Pettit's Rosary beat Mr. Hunter's Peablossom : Won in high style by two lengths. Sweepstakes of two hundred sovereigns— Mr. Dilly's Windrush beat Lord Wharucliffe's Octaviana, and Mr. Dilly's Xeuxis, Won cleverly. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns—gained by by Mr. Payne's Paulina. beating Mr. Sowerby's Impudence, the Duke of Grafton's Lyric, the Duke of Richmond's Estrella, and another. Match for two' hundred sovereigns—Mr. Greville's Mohican beat the Duke of Grafton's Deacon.

The Craven Stakes was one of the finest races ever seen at Newmarket, being equally remarkable for its severity and the admirable jockeyship it called into play. Amphion, Fleur-de-lis, and Zinganee were together till within a few yards of home, when Zinganee and the mare made a tremendous effort for the Stakes ; Chiffney, however, who rode Zinganee, by that terrific rush for which he is so remarkable, absolutely lifted his horse in front, and won by a bare head. It was one of the most brilliant things we ever witnessed; and all who saw it, allow that the mare has lost little fame by her defeat. The odds were 11 to 8 against her, 5 to 2 against Zinganee, -and 4 to I against Amphion.—Morning Chronicle.

Tuesday. Sweepstakes of two hundred sovereigns—the Duke of Rich- mond's Scimetar beat Lord Orford's Tancreda, by a length. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns—Mr. Rush's colt beat Mr. Newton's filly, and Mr. Stonehewer's Chiron by a length. Sweepstake., of one hundred sovereigns— Mr. Payne's black colt beat the Duke of Portland's colt, Mr. Stonehewer's Lion, and Mr. Rogers's St. Lawrence, by a neck. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns—Mr. Udny's Lady Emily beat Mr. Payne's Jungfrau, and Mr. Dilly's Canary, by a length. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns —Mr. Batson's Seraph beat Lord Orford's Emeline, Mr. Shard's Little Ecstasy, and Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote, by two lengths. Sweepstakes of two hundred sovereigns—Lord Orford's Scheik beat Sir J. Shelley's filly by a length. Sweepstakes of two hundred sovereigns—Mr. Vansittart's Ma- gaurska beat Lord Wharnclitle'g Vortigern and Lord Orford's Emeline: Won by two lengths. • The Oatlands of fifty sovereigns each—Mr. Rush's Jenkins beat Mr. Roberts's Locket, Lord Sefton's Souvenir, and Mr. Irly's

Toso, and !gained by half a length. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns —Mr. Thronhill's Mariner, beat the Duke of Grafton's Omen by a length. Wednesday. The weather was unfavourable, the course thinly attended, and the sport poor. A motel for one hundred sovereigns, between Lord Southampton's Brother to Urganda, and Lord Vernlam's Laurestinus—the former won easily by two lengths. A plate, by subscription, of 501.—Mr. Shard's Negress, beat Mr. Houldsworth's Flush, and Colonel Wilson's ch. filly : the race was very severe, and won by a neck only. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns—Mr. Rush's ch. c. beat Lord Anson's by Tramp, and Lord George Cavendish's by Godolphin : Won by a neck, idler a fine race.

Thursday. Match for one hundred sovereigns—gained by Sir J. Shelley's Blinker, who beat Mr. Greville's Xariet by two lengths. Sweepstakes for three hundred sovereigns—Lord Jersey's Will-o'-the-Whisp, heat the Duke of Grafton's Ronald, and the Duke of Rutland's Brother to 'Moses Won by two lengths. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns each—the Duke of Grafton's by Centaur, beat Lord Exeter's Green mantle, and Lord Arson's Prue: \Von by a neck. The Lincoln's Inn Stakes of one hundred and fifty sovereigns each— Mr. Carter's Augustus, beat Sir .1. Shelley's Fortune-teller, Duke of Gratton's Artist, and Mr. Houldsworth's Lady Louisa: Won by a length and a half. The Claret Stakes of two hundred sovereigns each—Mr. Chiffney's Zinganec, beat Mr. Pettit's Rough Robin, and the Duke of Rutland's Cadland: Won by a length.

Friday sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns each—Mr. Stonehewer's Lion beat Mr. Greville's Vortigern, by a length. Match ffir two hundred sovereigns—Lord Sefton's Morris Dancer heat the Duke of Portland's c. by Abjer, by two leugths. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns each—Mr. Thornhill's f. by Woful beat Lord Stradbroke's Boil and Bubble, by a length. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns each—Lord Exeter's Patron beat Lord Whaencliffe's c. by Whisker, aud Mr. Stonchewer's Lion : won by two lengths. Sweepstakes of two hundred sovereigns—Lord Sefton's Morris Dancer beat Mr. Thornhill's f. by Woful, by a length. The Port stakes of one hundred sovereigns each—Ste. Payne's c. by Walton beat Mt'. lioulds. worth's Lambtonian and Lord Southampton's Lepanto.

Tint EASTER HOLYDAYS passed without a single incident for the pen of the judicious chronicler. Madame Malihran Garcia has commenced her engagement at the King's Theatre, in the character of Desetemona. We shall speak of this perform- ance after we have witnessed it ; for we could not, of course, commit the vulgar atrocity of attending the Opera on Easter Tuesday.

Lady Alice Gordon, eldest daughter of the Earl of Aberdeen, whose severe illness we announced last week, expired at eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, at Argyll House. Lady Alice was the Earl of Aberdeen's ehlest (laughter by his first marriage, and was in her twentieth year. The Earl has not left his residence since. Upwards of three hundred of the nobility left cards of condolence on Thursday, at Argyll House.

The Earl of Buchan died at Dryburgh Abbey, on Sunday morning last, in the 88th year of his age. He is succeeded by his nephew, the eldest son of the late Hon. Henry Erskine.

THE SLANDER ON LADY AGNES BYNG.—We understand that this atrocious and unmanly calumny has been traced to its source, and that the individual concerned in originating the falsehood has heen served with a writ from the King's Bench. The matter will come before the Court on the first sitting Clay of the ensuing term.—Dublin Evening Post. A separation has taken place in high life, which excites a good deal of in- terest ; but it arises from no cause except incompatibility of temper.—Moen- ing Paper. Don Miguel lately sent a costly present of diamonds to the Duke of Wel- lington.—Letterfrom Lisbon. The Duke of Norfolk recently purchased Michael Grove Estate, Sussex, for 195,0001.

Lord Eldon, immediately after the third reading of the Roman Catholic Bill in the House of Lords, went up to the Duke of Norfolk, who had placed him- self behind the Woolsack, and cordially shook him by the hand, observing at the time, " My Lord Duke, I have given a most conscientious opposi- tion to this bill through its various stages ; but as my opposition has proved ineffectual, I sincerely congratulate your Grace on your admission to your place in this House.—Illoeninel Chronicle. ANTI-CATHOLICS OF 1780.—It is not unworthy of recollection, that in the year 1780 the hangman was an active partisan of the "No-Popery" party of those days. Jack Ketch was, doubtless, a true Brunswicker, and inspired with a pure and holy zeal for the Established Church. The fact of the services of this worthy champion of the Protestant constitution of 1688 is thus recorded in the Annual Register, among the trials of the rioters : " Edward Dennis, the hangman, was found guilty of being active in assisting to demolish the house of Mr. Boggis, in the New Turnstile, Holborn."—Times. CHURCH Ream:al.—The Earl of Winchilseit has loom' disciples oolong to go all lengths in the reform of the Church. The Morning Journal is their organ ; and among its correspondents, one, while he admits that the Church is strong in " its scriptural articles, its scriptural and sublime liturgy, and its scriptural formularies," avers, that its "strength is lamentably impaired by some inherent vices in the system of its establishment." Time frequency of the selection of persons to fill the office of Bishops—" by a Cabinet Minister for his own political objects"—is one of the crying evils. The remedy sug- gested is, that the Bishops should be elected by the Episcopal body, some- what after the fashion in which the Roman Pontiff is elected by the College of Cardinals.

In the Consistory Court of Gloucester, a libel was lately admitted, pre- ferred by a churchwarden against one of his parishioners, for not attending regularly at church, according to a statute of Queen Elizabeth.

The royal giraffe is still alive, but, as the cockney punsters would say, is It on its last legs."

It is reported that the Macclesfield silk.weavers hove inserted an advertise- ment in the papers, in which they offer their teeth for sale, having in these hard times no further use for them.—Manchester Gazette.

SUPERSTITION.—We are informed, that, within the last two or three days, a female, of apparently decent habits, and of a respectable grade in society, applied to the sexton of the Holy Trinity church to procure for her a small fragment of a human skull! On the man asking her for what purpose she could possibly want a relic of mortality which most females would view with horror and disgust, she made the following disclosure :—A child of her's, she said, had been for some time afflicted with the falling sickness, and she had been recommended, by some of her neighbours, as an infallible cure, to grind to powder a piece of human skull, and, mixing it with treacle, to administer it to her offspring.—Hull Packet.

A DEAD RABBIT, A RABBIT IN Lew.—John Moore was indicted at the Nottingham Assizes, for stealing two rabbits. It appeared that the rabbits stolen were dead rabbits. Mr. Williams, on behalf of the prisoner, contended that the indictment was not supported ; and relied on the authority of a deci. sion of Mr. Justice Littledale, by which that learned Judge had ruled that an indictment for steatite, a duck was not supported by proving that the prisoner had stolen a dead duck—that is, that a dead duck was not a cluck. Mr. Sergeant Adams, presiding for Lord Chief Justice Best (who was laid up with gout) overruled the objection, and found that a dead rabbit was a rabbit. So the prisoner was convicted.

Qurra CLEARED OUT I—A gentleman returned home from the Gloucester Assizes a few days ago, having lost his cause, his shirt, great-coat, and spent all his money.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

A FEATHERED ..EHIEF.—A few days ago a child's cap, together with some lace and binders, were placed by a young woman on the banks of the river Eden, near Egremont, to bleach, and on her return to take them away she found they were " absent without leave." The loss of these articles caused some uneasiness. However, on looking around she discovered something white suspended in a tree on time opposite bank of the river, which excited lies suspicion, and a person coming up at the time, ascended it and found it to be a bird's nest. The bird, which was of the shelcock species, had actually taken the above-mentioned articles of dress across the river, to build her nest with I The cap was spread with much. care in the inside, and the lace and binders were compactly interwoven with old roots, &c. so as to forma the nest. The " stolen goods," however. were restored to the owner, and the feathered depredator was disappointed in her expectations of rearing her little nestlings in a lace embroidered habitation.—.21/onchester Miry.

A Misou.—A miserly bachelor schoolmaster died a short time since at Exeter, who had worn the same coat twenty years, and had himself darned his worsted stockings so many times, that no remains of the original cameo were perceptible. After his interment, his poor relatives sent for a gentle- man to look over his scraps of paper ; and on the testerof the bed were found, wrapped up in pieces of worsted rags or old stockings, sixteen hundred pounds in interest notes from different Exeter bankers, of 2,1s per cent., cone. mencing thirty-five years since, the interest of none of which had been applied fir; the compound interest of the whole would hare been 4000/. A dread of being required to assist his relatives appears to have been his motive for withholding the secret of his wealth.

On Sundae evening last, a young lad, between eleven and twelve years of age, attended divine service at M a Crabb's chapel ; where he fell so soundly asleep, that he walked out of the chapel, and reached his mother's house, a distance of a quarter of a mile, without waking.--Hampshire Advertiser.

About three dozen pods of green peas were sold on Thursday, in Coyest Garden Market, at the price of two sovereigns.

New potatoes, and strawberries completely ripe, were selling last week in the Edinburgh market.

The Scotch papers mention, as a roof of the lateness of the spring, that within the last fortnight twenty-one woodcocks have been killed in the woods of Kelly iu the west of Scotland. As an instance of the traffic between Ireland and Glasgow, in the article of eggs, it may be mentioned that one of the Derry steam-vessels, in a late trip, brought over fifteen tons, and on her next voyage upwards of twenty tons of eggs-270,000 ordinary sized hen eggs.

FLUIDS IN MINERALS.—AI a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, held on the 6th of April, Dr. Hope, the Vice-President, delivered to Dr. Brewster the Keith prize, consisting, of a medal and a superb salver, which had been previously adjudged to him for his discovery of two new fluids in minerals possessing remarkable physical properties. In the able address which the Vice-President delivered on this occasion, he adverted to the extensive in- fluence of these discoveries 011 geological theories ; and as one of these re- markable fluids expands thirty times as much as water, and is converted front the state of a liquid to that of a vapour by a change of temperature of only a few degrees, he pointed out its great value as a powerful mechanical agent, which, if it could be got in sufficient quantities, would entirely supersede the use of steam. As the heat of the mouth was in one case sufficient to burst time rock crystal which contained the fluid, and to wound the person who made the experimenL the animal heat .of the human body would be the only fuel neces- sary to put in motion a powerful engine. As such a fluid actually exists, and by the sacrifice of some tine specimens of minerals might be obtained in sufficient quantity for chemical analysis, it is not unreasonable to expect that it may yet be recomposed comet its elements, and made subservient to the highest practical purposes of life. Mr. Neilson, of Glasgow, whose experience and skill in the construction of steam-vessels is well known, is now building one a iron. It is SCUM years since a canal track-boat was made of this metal, but, so far as we know, it has not been hitherto employed for steam-boats, though the advantage of having these of an incombustible material is extremely obvious. Sir. Neil- son's iron vessel is of a pretty large size ; the length of the keel is 90 feet ; the length on deck will be about 100; the breadth at midships 15 feet. Shim is built on the same principle as a wooden vessel, but the shell is of plate iron, riveted together as in boilers. It is expected that she will be a fast sailer.—Scotsman.

An English political newspaper is about to be established in Paris. A Paris paper otys that the Emperor of Russia is likely to visit Paris to- wards the end of next month.

There is a great talk in Paris of a disagreeable disappointment which has happened to the Duke of Rovigo. One of his daughters was to be niarrieml to a Count Moticey. When the marriage contract was about to be concluded it was found cut that the Count was only au intriguer, of no fortune, and born of obscure parents.—Paris Letter. Four youno° Chinese lauded last week at Calais. They have been sent to France in order to be instructed in the religion and arts of Europe: Longwood, the house occupied by Buonaparto at St. Helena, is now let to a farmer, and the room he died in is converted to a stable:

According to the usualonode of reckoning Popes, 1 Mme lately deceased Pope, Leo. XII., was the two hundred and fifty-second sh • -ter the Apostle: of these, 208 were natives of Italy, 14 were Vrenclue. . mireeks, S Syrians

and Dalmatians, 5 Germans, 3 Spanier,'s.,2 Nmetli .:and 1 Englishman.

In the course of February King Ferdinanffisso. . scree against swears ing and blasphemy. A few days ago, a cart being iu tone of the streets tf Madrid at the moment when the procession of the lloii Sacrament was ap... preaching, the driver, anxious to get out of the way as speedily as possible, whipped his mules, and, unmindffil of the royal decree, exclaimed, " Carajo, Cameo." He was immediately arrested for swearing, and the next day was condemned to be sent to the gallies for two years. The King, upon being told of this sentence, replied, " Carajo !—'tis too severe:" Savings banks have lately been established throughout Sweden. There is scarcely a city or town that does not contain one. The savings bank of Stockholm has a capital of 700,000 francs. At Ekaterinenburgh, in Russia, the quicksilver in the barometer was frozen on the 18th of January last. The German journals contain the following anecdote.—" A traveller, on his

way to Warsaw, had the misfortune to see his coachman fall down apparently dead, from the intensity of the frost. Having no room in his vehicle, he placed the presumed corpse in a wreath of snow on the road-side. Having finished his business at Warsaw, the traveller returned by the same route, but was not a little astonished to find that the body of the driver had been removed. Upon going, however, to an adjoining inn, his astonishment was heightened by observing his quondam friend, the coach-driver, by the kitchen fire-side, who thanked the traveller in the best manner he could for the covering he had afforded him on his way to Warsaw."—Tournal des Debats. The German papers mention a singular mistake that took place in the Bos- phorus in the beginning of March. A Turkish frigate and a brig had been aunched during the night. At the castles of the Dardanelles they were taken or Russian vessels, and being briskly fired at, they sunk. Jussuf Pacha, who commanded the garrison of Varna during the Russian siege, died at Odessa in the beginning of March. He had several times in vain solicited permission to go to Italy or Switzerland.

MR. ROWLAND SeereeNsoN.—Proceedings were last month commenced -before. the Superior Court of the State of New York, for the liberation of Row- land Stephenson, detained in prison on the writ of capias ad respondendum, obtained by the ex-Sheriff Parkins. The Court, after two days' discussion, de- cided that Stephenson should be discharged without bail. They held that as he had been illegally brought within their jurisdiction, he could not leg fly be exposed to any arrest whatever ; and that he was under the protection of the Court till a reasonable time had elapsed fur his return to the place from whence he was abducted. Mr. Buchanan, the British Consul, denies on oath that he ever told Mr. Parkins (as the ex-Sheriff had sworn) that he had orders from the British Government to seize the fugitive and forcibly send him to England ; and he also denies that he was in ally manner privy to Stephenson's abduction from Savannah.

The Kentucky Gazette saith—" We have received from a subscriber in Ky, an account of the appearance of a most extraordinary being in that place, on the night of the 22d instant. He was in the shape of a man, and was supposed to be about sixteen feet high."

A YANKEE Dunne—The editor of a paper in 'Maine makes the following appeal in behalf of his back and stomach.—" We have many subscribers who have taken our paper for four years, and have paid us nothing. Do such persons think we can live on birch bark, like a cossack's horse, or grow fat by inhaling the west wind! Do they think that paper, types, ink, fuel, and many other costly and necessary articles are sent to us by unknown and in- visible hands ? Whatever Dr. Faustus might have done, the black art of modern printers has no such magic in it. When hungry, we have no time to fish or hunt, and it would be impious to expect a sheet full of good things to be miraculously let down from the heavens by the four corners, as in the case of Peter; and as to being fed by ravens, it is more likely the ravens will feed scantily upon us, unless we get some money shortly."

A countryman in one of the Western States with a load of meal drove up to a lady's door, and addressed her—" Do you want to buy any meal ? " " What do you ask for a bushel ?" '' Ten cents, ma'am ; prime ! " " 0, I can get it for a fip." (In a despairing voice)—" Dear lady ! will you take a bushel for nothing ? " " Is it sifted ?"

The Captain of the Aurora, on his passage from Liverpool to Mobile, fell in with, off the island of Montserrat (Antilles), a canoe, with three negroes, who had been driven out to sea to the distance of twenty leagues in their frail bark : they were dying of inanition, and as they spoke neither Spanish, Eng- lish, nor French, it is very probable that they arc negroes from the coat of Africa, who, in order to escape slavery, had adopted this sad alternative to recover their liberty.—Le Constitutional. CURE FOR Dyseersie.—We have heard of a dyspeptic clergyman, who after a long confinement concluded to try an experiment of preaching once more, and accordingly he delivered three discourses in one day of an hour each. Upon his return to his house he told his negro servant, that he felt much better for preaching. The servant replied, " I thought you would 'nesse, to get so much trash off your stomach."—Joe Our West India friends have curious forms of expression. The following is from a Kingston paper. " Ru uaway—In Kingston workhouse, February 27, 1829, Caroline, a yellow skin creole negro woman, has a blotched mark on the right shoulder, and is pregnant to Miss Sarah Sutherland, a person of colour, St. George's."

CHOLERA Meenus.—The East India Company's ship Abercrombie Robin- son, Captain John tunes, left Bombay on the 10th August : that evening a boy was taken ill and died. On the 12th the sickness was general, and raged so violently, that in the space of five days, of thirty-eight who were attacked twenty-four died, six of them in less than six hours, and thirteen in less than twelve hours from the first attack. Nine were buried in one day. The disease ap- peared, without exception, under the extreme and dangerous form of collapse. The stewers, who were among the best men in the ship, were taken sud- denly ill while at work, though previously in good health. One of them, while the funeral service was reading, felt a sudden shock, and made au ex- clamation of alarm, was taken below sick, and ere morning was a corpse. No remedy or palliative for this epidemic could be discovered. The vital energy seemed so completely destroyed, from the first moment of ostensible disease, as to leave an insufficiency of life remaining to be influenced by restorative moans.

AN EXECUTION IN CHINA.—On the 25th June, the Emperor directed cer- tain kings, nobles, ministers of state, and the military council, to assemble and examine Changkihur, the commander of the Tartar rebels, with severity, to pass sentence according to law, aed report the issue. '1'o-day Changkihur was examined by the Emperor in person. It is rumoured that his Majesty said—"Your ancestors received many favours from onr imperial house, but were ungrateful, and you also have forgotten to be thankful ; you have au- daciously dared to excite a rebellion." Changkihur answered—" I am not a rebel. The eight Mahomedan cities were the inheritance of my forefathers ;

I merely endeavoured to recover them. How can this be called rebellion ?" He was forthwith led out, and slowly torn to inches in the market-place.

CHINESE COURIERS.—At certain distances along the roads and canals in China, say at intervals of two or three miles, are placed square buildings, with a sort of sentry-box attached to them, where a soldier is seen on duty; and, should any tumult or breach of the peace occur, he pounces down, sans cerenumie, on the offender. The peculiar province of these sentries is to act the part of couriers; for there is no other sort of post in China, besides that dependent upon these runners. They transport the ministerial despatches from one station to the other, and convey letters from Pekin to Canton in twelve days, which gives a rate of fifty leagues per day.